Thank you everyone for responding to my question about.  I found out that
KDE isn't installed, and I've been unsuccessful in my efforts to install it.
Here is what I've done and the results:

In the file manager I opened the mnt directory, then the cdrom directory,
then Red Hat, and then RPMS.   I right clicked on kdebase-1.1 2-10.i386.rpm
and chose install.

I got a message "failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
Install failed

My attempts at installing any rpm resulted in the same failure.

Any ideas?  Was I on the right track?



-----Original Message-----
From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
[mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Jesper Krogh
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:42 PM
To: KDE general mailing list
Subject: Re: redhat and kde


> now i'm  misspelling too - i meant KDE is not an option in switchdesk
> that's why i need to know if it's even installed

Insert your Redhat cd in your cd drive. Find the RPM directory and type:
rpm -ivh kde*
Then you should have the option in switchdesk next time.


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/Jesper Krogh
Student at DTU Denmark
Make yourself free.... Delete your Windows partition !!
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